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Like Pinocchio, your nose shows when you lie

Publicado en 05/12/2012 el 11:37

Much like Pinocchio , your nose could reveal that you’re lying, though unlike the beloved character, your nose will heat up instead of growing longer when you tell a fib, new research claims.

Psychology researchers from the University of Granada in Spain used thermography to study the temperature of people’s faces in experiments. They said they found a jump in the temperature around the nose and in the orbital muscle in the inner corner of the eye during lying. They also found that face temperature drops for people performing a difficult mental task and rises for people experiencing high anxiety.

The researchers said these effects could have something to do with the insula, a region of the brain involved in consciousness as well as the detection and regulation of body temperature . Lying boosted activity in this region, the team said. [ Why We Lie ]

Thermography could be used

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Sexual excitement heats genitals, while lying heats nose, new study says

Publicado en 05/12/2012 el 11:30

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A new study has revealed that one’s nose tends to heat up when the person is lying.

Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain used thermography to test a range of human experiences including sexual excitement and lying.

The study found that when someone lies, a brain element called «insula» (also called «insular cortex») is activated, raising the temperature around the nose, said Science Blog.

The researchers found a negative correlation between insula activity and temperature increase in the face.

They have dubbed the phenomenon the «Pinocchio effect.»

Using thermography, the researchers also found that the face cools during mental effort but heats up during stress – often a component of lying, said PopSci.

Arousal in men and women showed the heating of the chest and genitals.

The researchers said that men and women both get excited at the same time despite women saying otherwise, reported Yahoo News.

Thermography uses special cameras that measure heat.

It’s used for numerous endeavors from night vision for soldiers to measuring heat loss in buildings.

It was invented in the US during the Second World War.

The study has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

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Sexual excitement heats genitals, while lying heats nose, new study says

Publicado en 05/12/2012 el 11:30

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A new study has revealed that one’s nose tends to heat up when the person is lying.

Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain used thermography to test a range of human experiences including sexual excitement and lying.

The study found that when someone lies, a brain element called «insula» (also called «insular cortex») is activated, raising the temperature around the nose, said Science Blog.

The researchers found a negative correlation between insula activity and temperature increase in the face.

They have dubbed the phenomenon the «Pinocchio effect.»

Using thermography, the researchers also found that the face cools during mental effort but heats up during stress – often a component of lying, said PopSci.

Arousal in men and women showed the heating of the chest and genitals.

The researchers said that men and women both get excited at the same time despite women saying otherwise, reported Yahoo News.

Thermography uses special cameras that measure heat.

It’s used for numerous endeavors from night vision for soldiers to measuring heat loss in buildings.

It was invented in the US during the Second World War.

The study has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

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Pinocchio effect: Hot nose the sure sign of a liar?

Publicado en 05/12/2012 el 11:00

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Telling lies may not make your nose grow like Pinocchio’s , but it does leave the tip of your nose hotter, scientists claim.

Researchers said a rise in anxiety produced by lying will increase the temperature of the tip of your nose.

If you’re worried that your fib will be uncovered, researchers suggest a way of cooling the nose down — making «a great mental effort» .

Scientists, from the University of Granada, discovered the phenomenon by using thermal imaging cameras to monitor volunteers, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.

They have dubbed it «The Pinocchio Effect» , in honour of the 19th century Italian tale of the wooden puppet whose nose grew when he failed to tell the truth.

Emilio Gomez Milan and Elvira Salazar Lopez suggest that the temperature of the nose increases or decreases according to mood, as does the orbital muscle area in the inner corner of the eyes.

They also said thermal imaging can detect sexual desire and arousal in men and women, indicated by an increase in temperature in the chest and genital areas.

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Pinocchio effect: Hot nose the sure sign of a liar?

Publicado en 05/12/2012 el 11:00

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Telling lies may not make your nose grow like Pinocchio’s , but it does leave the tip of your nose hotter, scientists claim.

Researchers said a rise in anxiety produced by lying will increase the temperature of the tip of your nose.

If you’re worried that your fib will be uncovered, researchers suggest a way of cooling the nose down — making «a great mental effort» .

Scientists, from the University of Granada, discovered the phenomenon by using thermal imaging cameras to monitor volunteers, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.

They have dubbed it «The Pinocchio Effect» , in honour of the 19th century Italian tale of the wooden puppet whose nose grew when he failed to tell the truth.

Emilio Gomez Milan and Elvira Salazar Lopez suggest that the temperature of the nose increases or decreases according to mood, as does the orbital muscle area in the inner corner of the eyes.

They also said thermal imaging can detect sexual desire and arousal in men and women, indicated by an increase in temperature in the chest and genital areas.

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Liars’ noses may not grow, but they are feeling the heat

Publicado en 05/12/2012 el 10:56

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It doesn’t outright glow — and it doesn’t grow — but researchers have confirmed the human nose heats up a tad when we lie.

It’s been dubbed the Pinocchio effect and was studied by a team at the University of Granada that used a combination of psychology and sophisticated thermography.

Researchers Dr. Emilio Gomez Milan and Dr. Elvira Salazar Lopez, working out of the university in Granada, Spain, are pioneers when it comes to combining psychology and thermography.

Thermography is a technique that uses specialized cameras to photograph where heat is emitted by a given subject or object (buildings, motors, animals, humans). The pictures are then printed with various colours depicting the amount of heat in any specific area.

White denotes the warmest areas; reds and yellows point to intermediate temperatures; and blue represents the coolest spots.

In a doctoral thesis recently completed by the two researchers, they say when a person lies they experience an increase in the temperature around the nose and at the orbital muscle at the corner of the eye.

The two say that when a «mental effort» is made while performing difficult tasks, such as being interrogated and even lying, face temperature changes due to a series of complex biological reactions.

When individuals perform considerable mental effort their face temperature drops. When anxiety is involved — such as when a person is telling a lie — temperature rises.

The pair also determined the thermal footprint of aerobic exercise and different dance modalities such as ballet.

They found through the thermal imaging that when a person is dancing the flamenco the temperature in the dancer’s buttocks drops but increases in the forearms.

It’s called a «thermal footprint» with each different dance displaying a unique pattern.